Diaries Quotes - Page 9

• Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

  Christina Baldwin

  Teacher, Writing, Voyages

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.18, M. Evans

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• The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Garden, Creating

  2003 The Journals: Volume 1.

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• You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you.

  Harvey Penick

  Thinking, Swings, One Day

  Harvey Penick (2011). “And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

  Anna Brackett

  Book, Simple, Two

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• Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.

  E. B. White

  Honesty, Thinking, Sorrow

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• Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

  Sarah Manguso

  Defense, Wake Up, Waking

  "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, www.theatlantic.com. March 3, 2015.

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• I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Nice, Years, Feelings

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

  Franz Kafka

  Giving Up, I Won't Give Up, I Can

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• ... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Who We Are, Honest

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• [The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

  Amber Heard

  Roles, Painful, Process

  "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

  Anne Frank

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  "The Diary of a Young Girl". Book by Anne Frank, www.encyclopedia.com. June 25, 1947.

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• Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

  David Cameron

  Weekend, Cameron

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• Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

  Christopher Morley

  Writing, Happened, Knows

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• Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Remembrance, Kind

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• If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

  Emeli Sande

  Voice, People, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

  Glen Hansard

  Funny Things, Decision, Intellectual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had read, and I wanted to do the same to others. I don't think it ever was the notion of an autobiography; I skipped that phase totally, I think.

  Vito Acconci

  Writing, Thinking, Phases

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

  Amber Heard

  Real, Artist, Rum

  "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.

  Julie Plec

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Brother

  "Vampire Diaries: Nina Dobrev Won't Return for Season 7" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2015.

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• In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.

  James Lecesne

  Character, Gay, Boys

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• The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.

  Sophie Blackall

  Ebay, Shopping, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure.

  Steven R. McQueen

  People, Vampire, Shows

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

  Anne Frank

  War, Thinking, People

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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